The version I have (running breezy) doesn't have syntax enabled by
default. I had to use the "syntax enable" command every time I start
up vim. However, if the command "syntax on" is added to the user's .vimrc file, it will enable it automatically when it starts. Seems like a more failsafe method than a symlink. To test if the system supports color:
<br><br>if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")<br> syntax on<br> set hlsearch<br>endif<br><br>Could simply include the .vimrc file in each user's profile by default, that way people don't need to go searching around, or messing with symlinks.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rocco Stanzione</b> <<a href="mailto:grasshopper@linuxkungfu.org">grasshopper@linuxkungfu.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 04 March 2006 07:08, Michael Bienia wrote:<br>> Create a symlink vim63 -> vim64 in /usr/share/vim. I've done it some<br>> time ago and nearly forgot about this bug.<br>> IIRC this is necessary because vim-runtime is installed in
<br>> /usr/share/vim/vim64 and vim looks for files in /usr/share/vim/vim63<br>> because vim --version thinks it's 6.3 (dpkg tells it's 6.4).<br><br>I ran across thus too, but I didn't realize it was a bug or I'd have filed a
<br>bug report. I "set runtimepath" manually in my .vimrc, which I've kept<br>around at least since 6.3, and /usr/share/vim64 wasn't in there. I added it<br>and all was well. Off to launchpad now to see if there's a bug report.
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